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GLAST 3 rd HEA AAVSO Workshop – 3/20-23/05 Co-sponsored by Swift and GLAST – about 90 AAVSO members and educators in attendance Spear: Blazars of Our Times Plait: GTN – included live demo of GORT Plait also did public lecture “7 Ways a Black Hole Can Kill You” Cominsky, Silva, Plait and Graves did a workshop for educators using “Cookie Cutter Astrophysics” beginning photometry activity

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GLAST Cookie Cutter Astrophysics Goal is to remove background from stellar image They also had to compare the brightnesses of the two stars in the “image” Tools: scale, ruler and plastic knife star background

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GLAST EA Workshops since SWG in 10/04 – The 10 GLAST EAs have presented 40 workshops to students, teachers and the general public in the past five months – They have reached 1100 direct participants and have distributed over 1000 GLAST material items – New EA Sharla Dowding from Wyoming leads with 7 presentations, many others have 5 or 6 already (four are required per year) – The SCIPP Tesla Coil show has done two presentations to an additional 150 participants

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GLAST New GLAST Exhibit Booth Debuted at AAS in San Diego in January 2005

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GLAST New E/PO Exhibit Booth Will be used for teacher conferences

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GLAST TOPS Learning Systems SCALE THE UNIVERSE — Now in print! — Used in many ongoing workshops by EAs and for EYH —Will be basis of mini-course that is in development for use in after- school programs, with Boys & Girls Clubs, and with Upward Bound

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GLAST Other printed materials New materials in development – GLAST Race Card Game – still in test – AGN Pop-up Book - being reviewed GTN Observing activities tutorials – Cookie Cutter Astrophysics – now on line –Astrometry tutorial - – tested at EA training, being written up –Jelly bean Spectroscopy – tested at EA training, being written up Supernova Educator’s Guide (Joint with XMM-Newton) – First activity now on line – Excel model of supernova lightcurve –Second activity now in test – Crawl of the Crab –Third activity in development – Heart of Supernova

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GLAST Program script now in development – NOVA Contract in negotiation –Should air early in 2006 Planetarium show in production PBS Television Special Still image from black hole flight simulator sequence

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GLAST GLAST Public Relations - Update “Giveaways” at science meetings – Out of stickers – A few more Magic cubes left GLAST public brochure – –Now in print –Handed out at AAS Will be reprinting more mission posters when new PR funds arrive

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GLAST E/PO Summary GTN is poised to really swing into action now that GORT is online Many new GLAST materials will become available during next year but we may have trouble printing them New NASA review procedures are going to slow down our production considerably